The premise is the movie, plus some Michael Bay's bouts of action

Rating: 3/10 (29 November 2010)

If you know the premise (well, the movie has been advertised extensively) half of the movie is just plain boring. It takes more than one hour to explain what lies behind 'The Island'.
If you don't know the premise, the first half of the movie is boring all the same. The clean polished Brave New World setting doesn't engage the audience beyond some curiosity and subsequent too-slowly-built suspense.
Lincoln 6-echo and Diana 2-delta have the mind and bland behavior of a 15-year old in some Mormon drama (see Twilight). How is empathy supposed to be building for such uninteresting characters? There's the usual gigantic outbursts of Michael Bay trademark action, but the continuity is anemic.
IMO the movie would have had much more dramatical/suspense potential (and would have cost much less) if the story concentrated on one/two sponsors confronted with the product they ordered. Better characters, better drama, and action unfolding from the very start. Michael Bay thought he had an actioneer with much substance this time, but he barely understands substance against action, thus The Island seems to be drifting away for 2 hours, only following the stream of its very interesting premise.